[FedCom] Voodoo 92

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UAVs use regular ATC frequencies. Generally you can't fly a UAV unless
the airspace is designated for such flights or you have a chase plane.
If you hang out at the General Atomics facility in the Mojave desert,
you will see Predators with a Cessna chase aircraft. That is because
the airspace is not designated for UAV flight.

The only exception to this that I have seen are the Global Hawk
flights, which as far as I can tell don't require chase aircraft. They
use a HAWK callsign and have mode-s.

You can try fr24.com. They have their own dedicated mode-s receiver
network, but they do censor the tracking.


On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 15:21:20 -0700 (PDT)
Blaine Brooks <blaineb2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> >>>I'm trying to identify the aircraft callsign "Voodoo 92" which I've
> >>>heard recently in Houston.  Most notably it has been
> >>>supporting DEA surveillance in Houston recently.
> >
> >WAG... UAV?  I personally have never I'D one, but
> >would assume the "remote controller" could "voice
> >call" a tower on some radio VHF/UHF to advise of 
> >landings or departures of the vehicle in the area,
> >unless of course, it was a classified mission requiring
> >extreme COMSEC.....
> >
> >Blaine Brooks
> >DFW Area
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> >
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